Letter patterns in bingo are among the most difficult but interesting patterns that players can draw or create to win prizes (even jackpots potentially). While some of the letters such as ‘P’, ‘L’, ‘N’ are considered to be winning patterns in the 75-ball US bingo variant, there are numerous letter patterns that can actually be created on a 5*5 grid bingo card.
Are Letter Patterns Winning In Bingo
Letter patterns are considered winning patterns only in some of the games, depending on the rules of that particular session. Letter patterns are not allowed in all games as such. In fact, most online bingo games will not accept letters as winning combinations.
What Letters Form Winning Patterns In Online Bingo
It again depends on the rules of the particular game as to which letter patterns would be accepted as winning patterns. However, letters ‘X’, ‘L’, ‘A’, ‘N’ are the most common ones. When it comes to letter patterns in bingo, they are worth trying by the players in sessions where the patterns are allowed.
Bingo Letter Patterns
Here are some of the bingo letter patterns and the possible ways of drawing them by marking off the numbers as they are called. Letter patterns, however, are allowed only in US bingo. In British bingo, such patterns cannot be drawn as the ticket format doesn’t allow for such marked combinations.
A
In bingo, players can draw a clearly defined ‘A’. The 3rd number of the topmost row, the 2nd and 4th number of the 2nd row, the entire 3rd row, and the two numbers in the leftmost and rightmost corners of the 4th and the 5th row make up for the letter ‘A’.
C
Drawing a ‘C’ on an American bingo card is relatively easy. Players just need to mark off the numbers on the topmost and bottom-most horizontal lines and the numbers on the leftmost vertical line. Out of these, two numbers would be overlapping between the rows and the column.
D
The letter ‘D’ is a pattern that is similar to the outer edge pattern. Only two numbers at the rightmost vertical line on the topmost and the bottom-most row are excluded in this pattern.
E
The ‘E’ pattern again is somewhat similar to the ‘C’ pattern where the topmost and bottom-most rows and the leftmost column are covered. For the ‘E’ just two extra numbers, the 2nd and 3rd numbers on the 3rd row need to be marked too.
F
Drawing an ‘F’ pattern on a US bingo card doesn’t require the player to cover too many numbers. The topmost row, the rightmost vertical line, and just two extra numbers which would be the 2nd and 3rd numbers on the 3rd row, and ‘F’ would be done.
H
For the ‘H’, players need to cover all the numbers on the leftmost and rightmost columns and the 3rd row or horizontal line on the bingo card. Two numbers would be overlapping in this.
I
The topmost and bottom-most rows along with the 3rd vertical line running right through the middle of the card make up for the letter, ‘I’.
L
The letter ‘L’, which is quite common is rather easy to draw by covering all the numbers on the rightmost column and the bottom-most row of the card.
M
Creating an ‘M’ is a bit complicated. For this, the player needs to cover the two vertical lines at the two sides of the card. Plus, the 2nd and 4th number of the 2nd row and the 3rd number of the 3rd row have be to marked to create the pattern.
N
For the ‘N’ pattern, the diagonal line pattern comes to play, which needs to be covered along with the two vertical lines or columns at the two extreme sides of the card.
O
A bit tricky, the ‘O’ pattern needs the player to cover the middle three numbers on the four sides of the card, that is, the topmost and the bottom-most rows and the leftmost and rightmost vertical lines.
P
The letter ‘P’ requires the player to mark off quite a few numbers that include all the numbers on the topmost row, the rightmost vertical line, the entire 3rd row, and the one extra number that is the 5th number of the 2nd row, as shown here.
S
Marking off all the numbers on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th row and two extra numbers that are the 1st number of the 2nd row and the 5th number of the 4th row creates the letter ‘S’ in bingo.
T
Simple as it looks, the topmost row and the 3rd vertical line in the middle have the numbers that make up for the letter ‘T’.
U
For drawing the ‘U’ letter pattern, players need to cover the numbers on the two vertical lines at the two sides and the bottom-most row, as shown here.
V
The ‘V’ pattern requires fewer numbers and only the first three on the leftmost and rightmost vertical lines along with the 2nd and 4th numbers on the 4th row and the 3rd number on the 5th row can make up for this particular letter pattern.
W
Again a bit complex pattern, ‘W’ involves marking all the numbers on the two vertical lines at the sides along with the 2nd and 4th number of the 4th row. The free space of blank space in the middle is counted too.
X
With two diagonal lines covered, the letter ‘X’ pattern is created in bingo.
Y
Interesting to look at, the three numbers running in the middle of the three bottom rows along with the 1st and 5th and the 2nd and 4th numbers on the 1st and 2nd rows can create the ‘Y’ pattern.
Z
Finally, for the ‘Z’ pattern, players need to be marking off the numbers on the topmost and bottom-most rows along with the ones forming the diagonal line from the rightmost top to the leftmost bottom of the card.